Alice Aycock
The True and the False Project Entitled “The World Is So Full of A Number of Things”

• The false project after the catacombs of St. Sebastian.
• The true project after the astronomer Lord Rosse’s telescope construction, “The Leviathan of Parsonstown.”
• The false project after a Piranesi engraving of the Thermae of Titus.
• The true project after the circular building in Bosch’s painting The Temptations of St. Anthony.
• The false project after Georgy Yakulov’s 1992 stage design for Girofle-Girofla.

The artist installed an architectural structure with the following dimensions: Curvilinear Section—inside curve: 10′ in length (approximately), 8′ in height with a 4′ step-up to 12′ (an 8″ riser to a 12″ tread); outside curve: 20′ in length, 10′ in height sloping to 12′, a 1′ step-up to 13′. Rectangular Section—6′ in width by 12′ in length, 12 and 13′ in height’ total width: 4′. Door in the Air: approximately 15′ in height, 4′ in width. Materials: wood and sheetrock.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.